CSEA has an understandable take on Governor Paterson’s $16.7 million in lame-duck spending that we reported earlier today: perhaps that money could have been used to avoid layoffs of state employees. Notes union president Danny Donohue: “The governor should think long and hard about whether he wants to end his administration with 900 employees following […]
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Gov. David Paterson took his war of words a little further this morning, saying public employee unions “lied” by putting out a press release Monday suggesting the state was hiring new workers. Government officials said they promoted several people, but have not made any new hires. “The public employee unions lied,” Paterson said on WOR. […]
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As part of his statewide tour of state facilities, Governor-elect Andrew Cuomo stopped by the Office of Children and Family Services’ Tryon Residential Center for boys in Johnstown. The facility has been staffed and maintained by state employees even though the last residents left in July, as a result of a 2006 law requiring one […]
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Lewis County is a solidly Republican part of the state. Yet some people in Lowville have no interest in voting for him. Current and former employees of FiberMark, a company that Wilson’s investment firm bought, reformed, and sold, don’t want to see him in charge of the state’s finances. The Buffalo News talked to people […]
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Democratic candidate for Attorney General Eric Schneiderman came up to Albany for a festival of endorsements and compliments from unions and labor groups, including CSEA and PEF. First up to introduce the Manhattan Democrat was AFL-CIO President Denis Hughes, who said that during a period when “you see friends who used to stand with you” […]
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The Working Families Party has endorsed Andrew Cuomo for governor in advance of today’s primary, even though critics say that the WFP’s pro-labor plaform and Cuomo’s threat campaign promise to radically reform state government are incompatible.
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I have no idea how I missed this earlier this week, but I did. Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo penned an op-ed for the New York Daily News directed squarely at state workers. Using the recently published book The Man Who Saved New York City as an entry point, Cuomo compares the state’s […]
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I’m catching up on podcasts, and just listened to WAMC’s Capitol Connection interview with candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, Carl Paladino. Here a transcript of what he had to say about the state workforce during the interview. Here, he’s describing life in the theoretical Paladino administration. Carl Paladino: Most assuredly, we’re going to […]
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AFL-CIO will endorse Comptroller Tom DiNapoli tomorrow in his first campaign for the job to which he was appointed in 2007. CSEA also announced their endorsement of DiNapoli last week, citing his roles as caretaker of state employees’ pensions and the head of an entity employing CSEA members. From CSEA President Danny Donohue’s statement: “CSEA […]
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